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NAPETERS. PHOTULITHOGRPH-ER, WASHINGTON. D CA UNITED STATES PATENTOrr-rca NELSON B. SLAYTON, OF ALFRED CENTRE, NEW YORK.A

HANDLE FOR COMBS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,443, dated July27', 1880.

Application filed February 21, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NELSON B. SLAYTON, ofAlfred Centre, in the county of Allegany and State of New York, haveinvented certain Improvements in Handles for Combs and other PortableInstruments of a Similar Gharacter, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in the handles of pocket-combs,or combs intended to shut up so as to be conveniently carried, the saidimprovements being also adapted to many forms of pocket instruments.

In a patent granted to me October 7, 1879, No. 220,438, I described andclaimed a razor d or knife provided with a handle in many Vrespectsresembling that herein described, and I wish it understood that what wastherein shown I make no claim to here.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is aside elevation, showing the comb closed or shut into the han- (lle.`Figs. 2 and 3 show the same partly and fully open. Figs. 4 and 5 arecross-sections of the instrument as shown at :v .fr in Fig. l, theformer looking toward the joint or hinge and the latter toward the buttof the handle. Fig. Gis a cross-section of a modification, which will bemore fully hereinafter described. y

Let A represent an ordinary comb provided with a back, B, preferably ofsheet metal,and consisting of a tubular or solid rib and jaws to claspthe comb. The broader end of the back is slotted at a to receive thehingingrivet, as indicated by dotted lines in Figs. l and 3. I may,however, make the comb and back all in one piece and of the samematerial, and construct the slot a in the coxnb itself; or any part ofthe back may be made of or covered with metal, if desired.

The handle consists of two cheeks, G O, and a tubular, or partlytubular, back, D, all preferably formed from one strip or plate of sheetmetal. "To the en d of the handle is attached a butt, E, containing asocket, b, to iit the rib or cylindrical part of the back B of the comb.

When the comb is shut, as in Fig. l, the rib or cylindrical part of theback of the comb rests in the socket b in the butt E, and when the combis to be opened it is slipped lengthwise until free from this socket andthen partially opened, as shown in Fig. 2. The comb is now slippedforward on the hingin'g-rivet until its butt clears the end of thehandle, when it is turned completely open and socketed, as shown in Fig.3. This is done by causing the rib on the back B of the comb to engagethe tubular back D of the handle, which is large enough to receive it.These same means of staying the hinged part when open by causing it toenter a socket in the tioned, and I make no claim to it here.

The handleis constructed, as before stated, of sheet metal, and theedges of the cheeks C are turned up, as at c, to give an apparentthickness to the same. The recess formed by this means between theflange c and the tubular back D may then be filled by a plate, F, whichcan be ornamented, if desired.

It vwill be seen that the plate F serves to stiften the cheeks O C andto hid'e the rivet which hinges the comb, and it may be secured to thecheeks by soldering, or by any other known means. The butt E may alsobechased or otherwise ornamented, as indicated in Fig. 2.

If the handle, butt, and oombback be made of brass-or. other soft metal,the sockets in the butt E and the tubularv back D may be lined with athin plate of steel to take the wear in socketing. It is not importantthat the ribbed or tubular portions of the back and handle should becylindrical, as shown in the first ve figures. They may be ofthe formshown in Fig.

6, or of other forms as well.

handle is shown in my patent before men- A Having thus described myinvention, '1

C, provided with the turned-np anges ce, and and the platesl F F,arranged as shown, all for 1o the attached plates F F, all arrangedsnbthe purposes set forth. stantiallliY :is and for the purposes setforth. In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed 4. The combination ofthe hinged part, promy naine in presence of' two subscribing witvidedwith n slt,` (a, and ribbed back, the hanmesses. dle consisting` of thetubular, or part-ly tubnl NELSON B. SLAYTON. lar, back D, cheeks C(Lprovidedwith ilanges Vitnesses:

^ c c, between which cheeks the hinged part is JOHN M. MOSHER,

pivoted, the butt E, containing the socket b, R. STILLMAN.

